How to Collect and Monitor Bloodstream Infection Rates

Daily “sedation vacation” AND daily assessment of readiness to extubate (unless medically contraindicated). Kress, Pohlman, O’Conner, and Hall (2000) found that when 128 adults on mechanical ventilation were randomized to daily interruption of sedation per protocol until the patient was awake or interruption only at the clinician’s ... ................
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